In one respect I am
going to imitate the 'Consternation.' I leave Bar Harbor next week."
Katherine sat up in her chair, and her eyes opened wide.
"What's the matter with Bar Harbor?" she asked.
"You can answer that question better than I, Kate. The Kempt family
are not visitors, but live here all the year round. What do you think
is the matter with Bar Harbor?"
"I confess it's a little dull in the winter time, and in all seasons
it is situated a considerable distance from New York. Where do you
intend to go, Dorothy?"
"That will depend largely on where my friend Kate advises me to go,
because I shall take her with me if she will come."
"Companion, lady's-maid, parlor maid, maid-of-all-work, cook,
governess, typewriter-girl--which have I to be? Shall I get one
afternoon a week off, and may my young man come and see me, if I
happen to secure one, and, extremely important, what are the wages?"
"You shall fix your own salary, Kate, and my lawyer men will arrange
that the chosen sum is settled upon you so that if we fall out we can
quarrel on equal terms."
"Oh, I see, it's an adopted daughter I am to be, then?"
"An adopted sister, rather."
"Do you think I am going to take advantage of my friendship with an
heiress, and so pension myself off?"
"It is I who am taking the advantage," said Dorothy, "and I beg you to
take compassion, rather than advantage, upon a lone creature who has
no kith or kin in the world.
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